Twelve year old Tri-X pan....GOOD!

[BradS]

I recently acquired several rolls of various out-of date film from a fellow APUG subsciber. Shot and developed a roll of the twelve year old Tri-X today.

Rated the film at EI320.
Developed in HC-110(b): 8mins @19 degrees C (per the instruction sheet in the box!)

Am very pleased to report that the negs all look ok!

Thanks Rick!

 

[Rick Haug]

That's great! Let's hope the other films have held up as well as the Tri-X.

 

[Mark Layne]

I have found Xtol to be good with old film as the base fog seems low. D23 is also good

Mark

 

[BradS]

Just finished dev'ing another roll. This time I read the fine print in the HC-110 data sheet. Seems the numbers in the table are for diffusion enlarger. Need to reduce dev time by 30% for condenser. Today's roll was rated at EI400 and got 5.5 mins in HC-110(B) at 19 degrees C. The negs are drying now but look much better.

As pointed out in another thread today, Tri-X is pretty good stuff - eh?

 

[john_s]

I have read somewhere (?) that Tri-X is particularly good as far as aging is concerned. I don't know about the new version; it might not be as good.